Quotes About Expression

The purpose of writing is not to commend the flaws and imperfections in life. We do not write to encourage enmity or to instigate evil. We want to promote writing not as self-expression, but to minimize life's imperfections.

The words that we put into writing are the very same words that come out from our hearts that speak.

In these circumstances I think we must take the bull by the horns and, making due allowances, quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

Don't be afraid of poetry.

An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.

It's so hard being goth. You have to have a bad time everywhere.

The movement Of the body is Where poetry Begins

Shut your fucking face.

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.

Significant Form" is the one quality common to all works of visual art.

All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.

Art is the outward integration inspired by the artist's inner disintegration.

Why should I waste my imagination on myself? —SERGEI DIAGHILEV

a poem is never finished, only abandoned,

A man who wants to find out who he really is should try watching the woman he loves as she dances the tango with a maestro.

There are no genres, there are only talents. —JEAN-FRANÇOIS REVEL, LE VOLEUR DANS LA MAISON VIDE, P. 311

That amazing thing doesn't need my poem, but my poem still needs it, the way every poem still needs all the world.